Solar Activity Report for 1/24/04

Conditions are beginning to quiet tonight after a 48 hour period that saw geomagnetic storms reach the G-3 level. That was as a result of the impact of a CME

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, Jan 24, 2004

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Conditions are beginning to quiet tonight after a 48 hour period that
saw geomagnetic storms reach the G-3 level. That was as a result of
the impact of a CME coming from a long-duration C-6 flare a few days
ago. Aurora were seen and photographed in several locations across
northern Europe, Canada, and Alaska, as can be seen here :http://science.nasa.gov/spaceweather/aurora/gallery_01jan04.htm . As
I said, conditions are quieting down now, and the solar wind speed has
dropped off back into the 460 km/sec range. There are four numbered
sunspot regions visible, all of which are close to the western limb of
the solar disk. None appear to have the potential for generating a
significant flare at the present time. With no significant sunspots
coming over the eastern limb of the solar disk, we could see the
sunspot number drop quite low as the currently visible sunspots rotate
out of view. There is a small coronal hole now in an Earth-pointing
position, and we could see some mild high-speed solar wind gusts from
it around the middle of next week.

Conditions for the last 24 hours :
No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours.

Forecast for the next 24 hours :
No space weather storms are expected for the next 24 hours.

Solar activity forecast :
Solar activity is expected to be at very low levels. There is a chance
for an isolated low level C-class flare from Region 544.

Geomagnetic activity forecast :
The geomagnetic field is expected to be at predominantly quiet to
unsettled levels. Isolated active conditions are possible with
southward oscillations in the Bz component of the interplanetary
magnetic field.

Recent significant solar flare activity :
None

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